"Ambassador
David O’Sullivan presented his credentials to President Barack Obama at
a White House ceremony today [November 18], formally assuming the role
of European Union Ambassador to the United States.... Ambassador
O’Sullivan is only the second diplomat to hold the position of EU
Ambassador to the United States, established when the Treaty of Lisbon
came into force on December 1, 2009."

"[O'Sullivan] succeeded Portuguese diplomat Joao Vale de Almeida in the role and follows in the footsteps of former taoiseach John Bruton
who was the EU’s representative to the US from 2004 to 2009.... Mr
O’Sullivan announced he had officially taken up his job in Washington
with his first message on social media website Twitter.“Happy to send out my 1st tweet as EU Ambassador to the US after having presented my credentials to @BarackObama@WhiteHouse today,” he wrote in the message."

For Twitter, see:
@EUAmbUS - European Union Ambassador to the United States
@EPWashingtonDC - European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC

John P. A. Ioannidis at the Scientific American in Science Research Needs an Overhaul
writes that he has co-founded a new center at Stanford University --
the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) -- to deal
with the costly problem that most mainstream research is wasted, for
example, 85% of medical research, according to The Lancet. He writes that the METRICS center:

"[W]ill
seek to study research practices and how these can be optimized. It
will examine the best means of designing research protocols and agendas
to ensure that the results are not dead ends but rather that they pave a
path forward. The center will do so by exploring what are the best ways
to make scientific investigation more reliable and efficient."

We applaud this development.

We
have been confronted for years by gullible, uninformed, and opinionated
people in and out of science proclaiming the near infallibility of
mainstream ideas and research methods.

Having taught research ourselves at the university level, we know from experience, of course, that exactly the opposite is true.

Most
of what is researched in science and published as a result is a costly
waste of time and often leads science in the wrong direction.

One
main reason for these follies of "scientific research", as we have
written time and time again, is that science in the past has been
predominantly "authority-based", whereas "evidence-based" research must
be given priority.

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